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A Comedy Adventure in the Alps
The Clarinet on the Glacier
by J.E. MacKenzie
Hear the author being interviewed about the book on World Radio Switzerland !​
A story of determination and dedication, and discovering what really matters, set in the majestic beauty of Switzerland's Alps.
Also a story of illegal paragliding, accidental water-skiing and amateur snake-charming. Switzerland doesn't market these things so much.
Harris Beadlesby is a man of culture and values. But now he’s stuck in England after accidentally assaulting a pensioner, killing her dog and blowing up a boat. These things happen. He also possessed the world’s most expensive clarinet until some idiot lost it on a glacier in the Alps. These things happen too.
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Scaling a mountain is a tricky business, especially when you lack the common sense to find your way out of an emergency exit.
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Jessica Morriston believes in little cultural value beyond salt ‘n’ vinegar crisps and a borderline unhealthy obsession with former James Bond actor, Timothy Dalton. But she’s an expert hiker and fluent in German and French.
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They have five days to get that clarinet back to the UK. Sherlock Holmes, James Bond and Clint Eastwood have all seen adventure in the Bernese Highlands. Now it’s their turn.
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They also have problems with the Swiss police, French ticket inspectors and the UK Border Force. Not to mention Jessica’s attractiveness to a horny waiter and a very angry cobra.
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Are they heading to a grand finale or an avalanche of disaster ?
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Find out what the book is about, what happens and who's in it. Read my thoughts on what it was like to write it and see if this matches what you think.
Learn more about Switzerland with beautiful photos and entertaining descriptions of various places where the book takes place. Read excerpts from the book to see what the characters think of them and get to know everything from the Alpine vistas to the dodgier drinking dens which make up this great country.
Get to know yours truly, J. E. MacKenzie, author of "The Clarinet on the Glacier" and somebody strange enough to spend time hiking round Alps and writing books about it while most other people chill out and try to be social.
Read "The Clarinet on the Glacier" and now you just can't get enough ? Check out this section for my previous novel (including where you can get it), a children's story which isn't strictly for children, and even some Church sermons, believe it or not (pun intended). The last element has fewer jokes but provides what it says on the box and at no cost.
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